Ministry Quotes - Page 10

• ‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Frustration, Focus, Energy

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• We must learn to share the gospel in ways that show it is both GOOD and NEWS. The gospel is about what God has done for us and what we can become in Christ

  Rick Warren

  News, Done, Way

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• All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Country, Dumb, World

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.71, Random House

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• The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Giving, Verbs

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God wants your ministry to flow from the realization that you are a beloved child of God. In that place you don’t worry too much about how people see you. You don’t worry too much about whether they’re nice or mean. You don’t even worry about whether they love you or hate you. You don’t worry because you’re simply going to love them and love Him. This comes from knowing who He is and what He thinks of you. This is what it means to grasp you are a child of God.

  Heidi Baker

  Children, Hate, Nice

  Heidi Baker (2016). “Daily Insights to Birthing the Miraculous: 100 Devotions for Reflections and Prayer”, p.158, Charisma Media

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• Relevance is not a substitute for the Gospel, but an entry point for it

  Edward John Carnell

  Substitutes, Relevance, Entry

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• Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hard Times, Time Keeping, Community

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• God is immutable—He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!

  Elizabeth George

  Target, Never Change, Constant

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• As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• Lord, give us a ministry where the sun will never set.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Giving

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• Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!

  Mike Ditka

  Jesus, Temptation, Stones

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• I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Helping

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2018). “Words of Counsel: For All Leaders, Teachers, and Evangelists”, p.40, Aneko Press

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• Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Whole

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.75, B&H Publishing Group

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• Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

  Joel Beeke

  Christian, Frustration, Preaching The Gospel

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• When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors…because so many men have built their 'ministries' on the dry dead bones of
  unconverted church members.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Past, Men

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• In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups

  Eddie Gibbs

  Years, Church, Doe

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• To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Cutting, Hands, Naked

  Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.236

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• Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.

  Floyd McClung

  Prayer, Selfish, Ambition

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• The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

  John Hancock

  Names, Rewards, British

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• I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he has indeed failed in some way, his wife’s disparaging words compound the disaster exponentially. Her cynicism is utterly emasculating, and many times, incredibly subtle. Like a fine, thin blade, it slices deep, penetrating to the very core of his masculine soul.

  Stu Weber

  Husband, Wife, Soul

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• How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Views, Myopic, Resurrection

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• Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the cross a symbol of the victory of death over life. By the Resurrection it was that the Crucified One was "declared to be the Son of God with power," the great truth on which the Christian's faith is founded, and to which his hope is anchored. That Christ died for our sins is the Gospel of the Christian religion regarded as a human cult. The Gospel of Christianity goes on to declare "That He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures"

  Robert Anderson

  Christian, Son, Rose

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• [P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes.

  Avis Bohlen

  Eras, Murder, Protection

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• The murderers of the three Bytyqi brothers, New York residents who were executed by Serbian Ministry of Interior personnel in 1999, have never been prosecuted. The U.S. government cannot accept that the murderers of three of its citizens go unpunished.

  Michael Kirby

  Brother, New York, Government

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• These three brothers were not afforded the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law. They were not given a fair and public trial. Paramilitaries, under the command of senior Ministry of Interior officials, denied them these rights and shot them in cold blood.

  Garry Robbins

  Senior, Brother, Opportunity

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